i just gotta feed a few fish before we go oh uh fish i ordered came in
all right let's go get em
before i check out what i brought in or which i brought in for fish
i also need to pick up some supplies for myself
now that we have breeding fish in the gallery and there's fry we need to have flake food to
actually feed them i haven't bought flake food for a long time but one of the things that i like
is that when it does come to flake food they've got an explanation of what all
of them are then they individually bag them up you only need a little bit or you need a lot
i'm gonna get some brine shrimp and some earthworm technically i think that was it just that's all
i needed was the flake food besides taking a look at the fish that i ordered into me
do you remember if we needed anything fish just a fish these guys are looking amazing
so jeff recently just got an order of fish in some of which are for me i'm gonna get jeff to
walk us through this order so you can have a kind of a a peek at it jeff is the owner of one fish
two fish in dartmouth nova scotia jeff go ahead and take it from here so yours will be great um
because i told you they would be smaller uh do you want to do yours first or do you want do you do
you want it like utter disappointment right away yeah or do you want to ease into disappointment
let's do disappointment so i had told you when you asked me to bring these in so all of these are new
so and those are the old garbage quarantine systems that we used to run this is the new
quarantine system that we are building to say it is better is a understatement of century these are
all run together so anything we're quarantining obviously all has to coincide with one tank so if
anything gets sick in one it gets sick at three yeah even if these two don't look bad we still
have to treat the entire so the new quarantine system is all individual tanks yeah everything's
actually isolated black phantoms these are really nice yeah those we bought i think 150 of those
did not lose a single fish that's not common not common at all uh yellow canvas they are very tight
and again when you say that those are tiny wait till you see yours oh lord um black calves
really nice fish again frontosas that's actually not a bad size for the frogs that's sort of what
they come in at yeah that's i think that's right around the size that i got mine yeah yeah that's
usually and then some uh mace and eyes or devin sony's however you however you want to say it
yeah these are actually always nice they are always nice they're a very
very pretty blue color fish again not a single loss in those so are you ordered yet well i did
a podcast with this guy named michael who does uh a lot of biotope aquariums and he uh i was
thinking about getting elephant nose fish anyways and then he just kind of pushed me over the top
and that's kind of why i was like hey can you get me xyz species and it turns out you couldn't get
the ones i wanted but you did bring in some so something is better than nothing so as usual on
those orders and you know because you've done a handful of them you ask you hope you get what
gets sent for the most part yeah so i had ordered a couple of different kinds of elephant nose these
are the kind we got another cool fish actually just before i show you these guys again they came
in bite size um tanganyika uh killifish oh sweet very rare fish not something we get that often you
can't see them it's not hard to focus on to go with most cichlids um but if you've got a very
very very cool fish oh look at the pygmy quarries they're so cute yeah they're not not a lot to them
well everything looks like it's fresh in their tanks they've only been a couple days so they
still need some time to color up but yeah okay so where's my elven nose so here's the bad news
uh you've already seen them twice um and they have been so small that you kind of
look past them both times oh yeah i feel now so if you want to zoom in uh and you have to
and you're gonna need a zoom in feature here oh man these are the one to two inch elephant notes
otherwise known as i can't see them eight centimeters the camera doesn't want to focus on
specs yeah they are not and the thing is there's a bunch of them in there there is 18 19 20 of them
floating around in there oh they're still super cool they are a very cool fish but the problem is
at that size you're not getting the full display of them you're not getting the nose out like
when they get a little bigger you're going to see yeah and these guys these guys uh communicate
through electrical pulses in the water you can i wanted to get them and bring up like a little
thing that can listen to them and like that very cool actually that's one of the reasons
i've never stopped them because when i buy them it's much more cost effective to buy more and
i have always been to the impression that they were very similar it's like a ghost knife where
you can't put a bunch together uh and then a supplier actually sent me i had ordered three
uh and three ended up getting messed up years ago for like 30 um and whenever i kind of complained
about it saying where do you want to where am i going to put all these individuals um he let me
know that they can actually go in the same tank so they're not i so i technically asked jeff
if he could get him one of two species and i would need him a lot bigger than this because i got big
tanks but i don't think i want those guys they're just not what i wanted and i don't want to settle
and they're just not that big it means i'd have to grow them out i'd really have to put some real
focus and effort on them but man i don't know they are cute i mean
what do you think exactly like you said and you've done this a couple times so you know when we order
you know we kind of go off the list and hope for the best i knew whenever i'd ordered them that
there was a chance they wouldn't send the ones you were hoping for i didn't want to not get any
i also loved them when you asked for them it was one of the things that i was like oh it's a good
excuse to bring a bunch in so i did yeah and get to see them in person because that's a huge part
of coming to the fish store is like getting to see a ton of different fish you've never seen before
in person and i like to see these guys i've seen elephant noses in person not bad species
definitely not besties and definitely not that size they've always been three times
four times the size of that when they come in yeah let me think about it i'm gonna get them
yeah i think that's what i'll do i think i might do one of those tanks maybe the elephant mouse
they're just incredibly interesting to look at i managed to catch some species
i was looking for when i was in cameroon and i had made a little device to find them
which is a piezoelectric device so this is just made from a little device attached to
some headphones and some metal rods and you stick those in the water and you will hear
the electrical signal from them convert it into sound yeah yeah so you can hear like
and you know that they're there because you can hear them